Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era

This striking portrait of Abraham Lincoln found in this book is drawn entirely from the writing of his contemporaries and extends from his political beginnings in Springfield to his assassination. It reveals a more severely beleaguered, less godlike, and finally a richer Lincoln than has come through many of the biographies of Lincoln written at a distance after his death. To those who are familiar only with the various retouchedversions of Lincoln's life, Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait will be a welcome-if sometimes surprising-addition to the literature surrounding the man who is perhaps the central figure in all of American history. The brutality, indeed that malignancy of some of the treatment Lincoln received at the hands of the press may well shock those readers who believe the second half of the twentieth century has a monopoly on the journalism of insult, outrage, and indignation. That Lincoln acted with the calm and clarity he did under the barrage of such attacks can only enhance his stature as one of the great political leaders of any nation at any time

Civil rights · Constitutionalism · Democracy · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Law · Race, History, and American Society

• Lincoln's Example

  Benjamin A Kleinerman•Perspectives on Politics•2005

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• Lincoln

  Open Access•James E Underwood•Presidential Studies Quarterly•2004

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• As Far as Republican Principles Will Admit

  Open Access•George Thomas•Presidential Studies Quarterly•2000

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• Prerogative and the Rule of Law in John Locke and the Lincoln Presidency

  Open Access•Sean Mattie•The Review of Politics•2005

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